While President Bush and his three blind mice -- Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice -- stupidly claimed that Americans would be “greeted as liberators,” they can only visit the heavily fortified Green Zone under the cover of darkness and secrecy.

By contrast, armed with just her passion and commitment to social justice, Medea has traveled throughout Iraq on her five visits. She has spoken with ordinary Iraqis who are horrified that Bush “has taken the cradle of civilization and turned it into a hellhole” in pursuit of an “illegal, immoral, unjustified and unprovoked war.”

Medea said:

We must listen to what the Iraqi people are saying. They’re saying even if you want to protect us, you can’t do it. You can’t even protect the Green Zone.

Iraqis don’t trust American troops with their security; their presence leads to violence. There will be no security until the American troops leave.